laterite

How To Use laterite In A Sentence

• In dry soils such as laterite soils, it is a very small plant not exceeding 9 or 10 inches across its spread. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The base colours yellow and Indian red are prepared from soft laterite while blue is made from the juice of indigo leaves and black from lamp-black.
• Rio Tinto has said it plans to spend $2 billion developing the site, which has an estimated 162 million tons of laterite nickel resources. Rio Tinto Wins Indonesia Permit
• In southern Yunnan province the river is a rich orange-red as it runs through the surrounding laterite hills.
• These soils tend to have low levels of plant nutrients, harden irreversibly when exposed to repeated cycles of wetting and drying, and form nodules or rock-like layers called ironstone or laterite. 5. How plants live and grow
• Danish Siddiqui/Reuters HARD LABOR: Fourteen-year-old Sunil was at work Thursday at a laterite brick mine in Ratnagiri district of India, about 225 miles south of Mumbai. Photos of the Day
• The Sinda community will be required to contribute 25 per cent towards the project, and this will come in the form of crushed stones, river and building sand, laterite and pan bricks.
• Freshly hewn laterite blocks lay piled up one side of the courtyard.
• The quantity usually used is 5% and it has proved to be attractive for stabilizing sandy soils, clayey and silty sandy soils, soils rich in limonite (some laterites) in arid regions, and in general soils which lack cohesion. Chapter 11
• Nuggets in laterite can be either reddish or black; nuggets in quartz appear cloaked with white.